Wednesday, December 21, 2016

UPS, FedEx fight to stay ahead of gift package deluge

UPS is anticipating it will deliver more than 30 million packages a
day this week, almost twice the 16 million deliveries made during a
more typical 24-hour-period, says company spokeswoman
Susan Rosenberg. Meanwhile FedEx, which has projected deliveries to be
roughly 10% higher during the peak holiday shipping season than those
weeks in 2015, expects the four Mondays between Thanksgiving and
Christmas to be "among the busiest days in the history of the company,''
says spokesman Patrick Fitzgerald.

FedEx, preparing to report its second quarter earnings on Tuesday, would
not say how many packages it was handling on Monday. But Fitzgerald
said last week that the company was experiencing "multiple days'' where
the volume was roughly twice the amount seen on an average day. And, so
far, "our service levels are . . . as good as any holiday-shipping
season we've ever had.''. . . more